Quotes About Collaboration

With Kyrie and KD, if you're telling me I get to come out here and pass to two phenomenal scorers and get 10 assists a game and maybe be in second gear a lot of times with my scoring, I'm fine.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Chickenfoot is phenomenal. I can't believe the music we're making.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.

It is interesting because even if you are great, and phenomenal, and talented, if you aren't easy to work with, no one is going to want to work with you. That's just the way it is.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.

I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.

Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Everybody really don't rock with each other in Philly - that's a problem. 'Cause me being in Atlanta now, I stay in Atlanta, and I get to see everybody work with everybody no matter what.

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.

I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

Hopefully, the guys will work on a 'Conchords' film because the world deserves it. That's up to them, because we're all keen to do it. It's about finding the time and the right story. All I can do is encourage them and then wait for the phone call.